On November 15, the seminar "
Applied Ethics: Economics", at 6pm, on the Terrace (New Quelhas Building).
The seminar is organized as part of ISEG's Master's Degree in International Economics and European Studies.
Free admission.
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On November 10, the seminar "
Espistemologies and Knowledges of the Garifuna Community about Development and Well-Being: Decolonizing Development Perspectives from Afro Indigenous in Central America".
The seminar starts at 10:30 a.m. in room 104 (Ed. Bento de Jesus Caraça, Miguel Lupi).
The speaker will be Jessica Fernandez Norales, a PhD student.
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On November 8, a seminar will be held within the scope of the Master in Accounting, Taxation and Corporate Finance of ISEG on "
Taxation as a Driver of Economic Development", at 17h30, in the CGD Auditorium (Ed. Quelhas, 2nd floor).
The seminar will be attended by
State Secretary for Fiscal Affairs,
António Mendonça Mendes, and also of
Professor Eduardo Couto (
Vice-President of ISEG and Coordinator of the Master's Degree in Accounting, Taxation and Corporate Finance at ISEG.),
Jaime Esteves (
partner and head of the Tax Division of PricewaterhouseCoopers, Portugal,
Cape Verde and Angola),
Renato Carreira (
Partner of Deloitte's Tax Division, Portugal),
Professor António Samagaio (
Assistant Professor at ISEG and Chartered Accountant).
See the seminar program
on this link .
Free entry, subject to pre-registration at
www.tinyurl.com/fiscalidade
On November 8, the seminar takes place
"The Use of Evaluation in Development Cooperation: Portugal (1994-2017)".", at 14h30, in room 104 (Ed. Bento de Jesus Caraça).
This seminar is organized within the framework of the PhD course in Development Studies at ISEG.
Free admission.
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On October 31, ISEG will host Professor Takanori Shibata, the creator of the PARO robot, who will talk about the development of the robot and its practical applications, as well as its possible use in today's society.
Takanori Shibata is chief researcher at the Human Informatics Research Institute - National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology and guest assistant at the AgeLab of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The session is co-organized by ISEG, the Japanese Embassy and the Japan Foundation.
The seminar starts at 6pm, in Auditorium 2 (Ed. Quelhas), and also includes the participation of Professor Joaquim Ramos Silva (ISEG).
Free entry, subject to pre-registration at
www.tinyurl.com/robotparo
The main focus of the event is to find the links between corporate governance and firm performance under the impact of market financial instability. Economic crises usually provokes the decrease in financial performance of the companies, due to that fact the issue of corporate governance adequacy takes attention of researchers. Academics as well as practitioners try to find out the best corporate governance practices leading to improve the firm performance. Previous papers in this area have already found significant influence of bad or good corporate governance practice on the firm financial stability at the same time the new trends at the market addressed the new challenges to corporate governance.
This international conference will provide the platform for academics and practitioners from many coutries of the world to analyze recent trends and upcoming challenges in corporate governance and company performance, major challenges and new horizons in further researching.
The conference topics will include:
- Corporate governance
- Board of directors
- Director's remuneration
- State/Private/Family ownership
- Reporting, accounting and auditing
- Bankruptcy; Liquidation
- Corporate transparency issues
- Earnings management
- Risk management
- Corporate finance and financial performance
- Asset Pricing and fund management
- Corporate Social Responsibility
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submission deadline: August 1, 2017
Notification of authors of accepted papers: September 15, 2017
When submitting papers the authors should declare whether they would like to have their papers considered for publication in Special Issues of "Corporate Ownership and Control", "Journal of Governance and Regulation". These papers will be subject to a separate reviewing process.
Further Information and registration:
http://virtusgccg.org/-international-conference-in-lisbon-october-26-2017-.html
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On October 25, the seminar "
The Ethical Challenges of Doing Business in China", at 18h00, in room 110 (Ed. Francesinhas 1).
The speaker will be Professor Fernanda Ilhéu (ISEG).
This lecture is organized within the framework of the subject Ethics Applied to Economics and International Business of the Master's Degree in International Economics and European Studies.
Seminar open to the public, with free admission.
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A seminar on "
Knowledge Sharing in Free Software Communities", at 5pm, in the Novo Banco Amphitheater (Ed. Quelhas).
This seminar, organized by ADVANCE - ISEG's Centre for Advanced Research in Management, will feature speaker Andrea Balle (PUCRS - Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil).
Free admission.
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On October 18, a seminar will be held on the awarding of the
Nobel Prize in Economics 2017 to
Richard Thaler. The seminar starts at 5pm in the DELTA room (Ed. Quelhas, 3rd floor).
The session, organized by ISEG's Department of Economics, will be attended by Professor Margarida Abreu (ISEG), Ana Costa (ISCTE-IUL) and Leonel Garcia-Marques (ULisboa's Faculty of Psychology).
Free admission.
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The seminar
"
What budget strategies for 2018-21?" will take place on
September 21st (Thursday)at 5pm at ISEG (Auditorium 2), with the aim of launching and discussing the
policy paper IPP No. 10, on the same topic.
The presentation of
policy paper will be the responsibility of the teachers
Ricardo Cabral (University of Madeira),
Luís Teles Morais (ISEG-UL) and
Paulo Trigo Pereira (ISEG-UL).
This will be followed by a panel discussion with
Carlos Tavares (economist) and
João Ferreira do Amaral (Professor at ISEG-UL), moderated by
Rui Peres Jorge(Jornal de Negócios).
After an initial drink, the seminar and debate will begin, which is intended to be free, dynamic and plural.
Free entry, subject to registration at http://www.ipp-jcs.org/pt/seminario-ipp-que-estrategias-orcamentais-para-2018-21/